On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 08:30:35 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 19:54:16 UTC, Chris wrote:
Nim does everything according to their marketing department.
The engineering department remains to be found.
Please elaborate. I'm all ears.
There is not much to be said really. Many doubtful decision
like compiling to C (Walter made a very clear sum up of why it
is a terrible idea
It is the most common target for new languages. It limits
language semantics, but it is a proven approach for new
languages. You get a lot for free when making C your first
target. Including asm.js.
I haven't tried Nim yet, as they are in early stages, but it
looks interesting. I also see that they have pure Obj-C ref
counting on the roadmap.
